Mr. John L. Tapia Jr. of Mobile, Alabama passed peacefully at his home surrounded by his family on August 7th, 2022. Mr. Tapia was a son, a brother, a father and a beloved friend to many. He was an Alumni of Murphy High School, Mobile, Alabama Class of 1956. He served in the Alabama Army and Air Force National Guard for 7 years and was called up to Active Duty for one year as so many others along the Gulf Coast were during the Cuban Missile Crisis between 1961 and 1962. Mr. Tapia was employed by the Alabama Power Company for 42 years, putting his own life in harms way many times during his career in the service of others in need. He braved multiple extreme weather events and catastrophes all along the Gulf Coast to restore power and bring relief to citizens who’d been affected by catastrophic weather events such as Hurricane’s Camille, Fredrick, and Andrew. He had a soft spot for baby squirrels he would come across often in his work and would bring them home to nurse them and set them free. He was a stoic, humble, understated man with a penchant for pulling off pranks that required a special kind of mastermind quality to plan and pull off. His deadpan observations about the quirks in life would invariably lead most of us to shake our heads in laughter. He was completely devoted and smitten by his wife of 65 years Mrs. Phyllis Tapia. Who upon spying him from across the park feigned ineptitude at working a water fountain and John seeing his opportunity to assist the distraught black haired Italian beauty, rushed to her aide to fix it, and thus the love story began. Mr. Tapia is survived by this wife Mrs. Phyllis A. Tapia (Alesica), his sons Leslie Vincent, Jake Anthony, and his daughter LaSchelle, his grandchildren, Dillion, Chelsea, and Gabriel John, a niece and his Nephew Malcom White, and his beloved reality TV co-watcher Patsy White. He is preceded by his father Mr. John Leslie Tapia, Sr. and his mother Beatrice Louise Tapia (Levene), and his sister Ms. Mary Lyons (Tapia), all lifelong residents of Mobile, Alabama. We will miss you beyond measure daddy.
Visitation will be held on Monday, August 15, 2022 from 10 a.m. until 11 a.m. at Pine Crest Funeral Home on Dauphin Island Parkway in Mobile, with a chapel service immediately following. Interment will be in Pine Crest Cemetery.
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